False equivalency is moral cowardice. The New York Times needs to remember this rule as it suggests that those who resist Donald Trump's evil are somehow as guilty as he is for being "rude" and "uncivil". My new .@salon

The New York Times even went so far as to feature a headline which read "In Era of Trump, Incivility Spreads in a Divided Nation." After a public outcry they changed it but the content of the piece stayed largely if not all the same. Again those who resist Trump should be "nice".

In a democracy journalists and reporters should be truth-seekers who offer testimony and witness as they hold the powerful accountable. Too many corporate news media types have forgotten that rule with their fear of calling Trump a liar or Stephen Miller a white supremacist.

As I write in my new .@salon the New York Times needs to relearn the lessons taught by brave reporters and journalists who told the truth about Jim and Jane Crow. There was no "both sides" or "what aboutism". No. Some things are just wrong and evil. The truth is a simple thing.

In this moment of 24/7 cable news and a need to present "both sides" in the interest of "fairness" if the Holocaust were happening today there would be "debates" and panel discussions on the nightly news between Jews and Nazis.

In the Age of Trump and a corporate news media that seeks profits over truth such a dark moment which seems like absurdist comedy is upon us in this malignant reality.

Trump's White House is a den and cabal of white racism with white supremacist and "white nationalist" believers and sympathizers such as Stephen Miller, Michael Anton and Steve Bannon and others writing the speeches and making racist policy.

As Mueller's investigation tightens around Trump and his corrupt administration he will only increase his white racist white supremacist appeals. It will likely not be too long before Trump is chanting white supremacist slogans such as "anti-racism is anti-white".

Donald Trump's White House is a den and hive of racists and others who are aligned with or sympathetic to so-called "white nationalists". Speech writer Darren Beattie is but one such example. My new .@salon

Stephen Miller, Michael Anton, Steve Bannon, Jeff Session, and yes the king of the cabal, Donald Trump have shown through their actions, words, and policies that they are racists in league with and doing the work of a much larger white supremacist ideology and movement.

And it should be no surprise then that Trump's chief economic adviser is longtime friends with Peter Brimelow, a prominent and open white supremacist.

Will there be violence between Republicans and Democrats in Trump's broken America? Political parties are increasingly like sports teams. The Trumpists and other Republicans are soccer hooligans. My new .@salon

Political scientist Liliana Mason's research suggests this is a distinct possibility. Her work also shows that yes there is hyper polarization but Republicans are much more hostile to the groups that comprise the Democratic Party than the other way around.

Republicans are extremely cold and hostile towards nonwhites, gays and lesbians, women, and other groups who they identity as part of the Democratic Party. Democrats have much less hostility towards white men, "Christians", rural Americans and the like.

Fascism is a religion. The 20th century will be known in history as the century of fascism.
〰️ Benito Mussolini
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I’d like to draw some comparisons and contrasts between our present situation and that of #fascist Italy between 1922 and 1945. I choose fascist #Italy rather than #Nazi#Germany because it has always seemed to me a better comparison.
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THE TRUMP-HITLER COMPARISON.
Is there any comparison? Between the way the campaigns of Donald #Trump and Adolf #Hitler should have been treated by the #media and the culture? The way the media should act now? The problem of #normalization?
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Because I’d written a book called Explaining Hitler several editors had asked me, during the #campaign, to see what could be said on the subject.

1. As a reformed liberal, much of my personal social media feed is still a showcase of this particular brand of mental illness. One of the latest bits of propaganda I've seen circulating is an animated video from a far-left blog that details "How to defeat authoritarianism."

2. It's #Resist pravda. There's not much of a subtext at all, because it depicts with cute accompanying illustrations how Trump uses each of these 5 time-tested techniques that "all authoritarians use."

3. Unfortunately for Act.tv, the only thing that it does with any degree of competency is show how blind most leftists are to the actual, real-life implementation of authoritarianism.

National politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, with a fun find on a TV above the bar at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2E37QRR

Two errors in the 2nd graf of Breitbart's Trump Hotel DC article:
-holdings aren't out of @realDonaldTrump's hands: trust isn't blind & he can profit from it
-Trump Org told Congress it was estimating foreign receipts—not auto donating in fullbit.ly/2CpL7z2